Nikolay Pavlov wrote: > 2018-03-13 10:13 GMT+03:00 Christian Brabandt <cbli...@256bit.org>: > > > > On Di, 13 Mär 2018, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov wrote: > > > >> Conveniently viewing tab-separated file is one thing, assembling is > >> entirely another. Who could you share such file except person using > >> (Neo)Vim with your patch? Spaces are safer and it is not impossible to > >> write a plugin which makes using them easier (also for viewing if you > > > > That is not completely true. The vartabs feature makes it possible to > > view the file in a spread sheet like manner, without changing the file. > > So applications consuming those files will easily function as before. > > Changing the file to use spaces will break those. > > > > Not sure what you mean with exchanging those files. The whole point is > > to have a comfortable way to view those files, without influencing how > > other applications handle those files. People who do not have a variable > > tabstop feature in their editor will simply see those files as before. > > But the same is true for e.g. the breakindent feature. > > My point is that while you can sure view those files in a nice manner > *yourself*, but it would not do any good for those who you share files > with unless they have vartabs themselves. So if files need to be > assembled it is better to use spaces unless it is some kind of file > used by both humans and applications, with latter requiring tabs. And > for spaces there already are a number of plugins.
I would imagine that tabs are used while editing the file, adjusting the vartabs option to make the columns wide enough. Once satisfied with the layout you can use :retab to change the tabs to spaces, and share the file with others. It's not perfect, but will work in many cases. -- login: yes password: I don't know, please tell me password is incorrect login: yes password: incorrect /// Bram Moolenaar -- b...@moolenaar.net -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
